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#The Wall Street Journal: Tesla ordered to pay former factory worker $130 million over racially hostile work environment

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“#The Wall Street Journal: Tesla ordered to pay former factory worker $130 million over racially hostile work environment”

SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Inc. subjected a Black former worker to a racially hostile work environment and failed to take reasonable steps to prevent him from being racially harassed, a federal jury found Monday.

The jury awarded more than $130 million in damages to Owen Diaz, who worked as an elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory in 2015 and 2016.

An attorney for Tesla
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declined to comment on the verdict.

An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.

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